For me, if I’m going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don’t get to speak on TV. David Denman Read Quote
There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make. David Denman Read Quote
I do things on TV that are kitchen-sink realism, which is great, but I like the challenge of a completely new language and dramatic environment. David Denman Read Quote
There are all kinds of historians and scholars who say that Brutus could have been a son of Caesar. That’s definitely a possibility. He’s a generation younger than Caesar. David Denman Read Quote
Hamlet’ is the most famous play in the world for a reason. The journey you go on is incredible. David Denman Read Quote
It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare’s words. David Denman Read Quote
Usually, you see this play as a guy who can’t make up his mind, but our version is more of a revenge thriller than a man who is pontificating what he should do next. I’ve never seen a ‘Hamlet’ this big, this exciting, with this many cast members; it’s quite a spectacle. David Denman Read Quote
There’s a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don’t expect of you. David Denman Read Quote
Most people know me from ‘The Office,’ where I played a guy who grunted out three or four words an episode and was kind of a knucklehead, and so I think it’s surprising for people to see me do something like this. But Shakespeare is what I grew up wanting to do. David Denman Read Quote
